Why are posts that users try to delete considered as “withdrawn” for a period of time as opposed to being immediately deleted. I know that you can change this period of time to zero but was just wondering about the reasoning here. I see that it says “unless flagged” so I am guessing that has somethi…

I think it’s mostly there to prevent gaslighting. If you claim to have “not said that,” and there’s a withdrawn post in the timeline, then you just might be lying. As described in this old announcement : [이미지] You can still see the original post in the revisions, so nobody can hide weird or abu…

Thanks Michael. Can you see withdrawn posts anywhere before they are deleted? Can users see them or do they just need to flag a post based on what they remember seeing?

That must depend on some site settings. There are several Discourse instances out there where I can see withdrawn posts if I click on them, and I’m certainly not staff. One of them I’m not even a member…

There’s nothing special about the visibility of withdrawn posts as far as I know, withdrawing is a normal edit. Whether edits are publicly visible can be configured via the site setting edit history visible to public :slight_smile:

I can’t find detailed discussion about this now, but IIRC, the main rationale for this is to leverage the community for front line moderation support. In particular, the team was concerned about two types of destructive behaviors, mentioned in the linked posts: https://meta.discourse.org/t/improvem…

A member mass deleting their posts is a different issue. In terms of (post withdrawn by author, will be automatically deleted in 24 hours unless flagged) I know of no times any such post has been flagged. And as long as Moderators could see post history a topic could be flagged with a type of “h…

[이미지] Mittineague: A member mass deleting their posts is a different issue. A flag or a warning to the mods might be a good idea. Perhaps a setting for “flag posts deleted/day”.

Does not matter, user self-deletes are rate limited per day.

I’d like to be able to hide the “post will be withdrawn in 24 hours unless” message completely for non-staff members. I actually like the rationale for this feature a lot (the earlier message in this topic explain it well) but it’s not right for my community right now. Is there a way to do this? If…

Why are posts withdrawn instead of being deleted immediately?

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Mittineague (Mittineague) 12월 15, 2017, 1:21오전 7

For what it’s worth, IMHO, this could likely be a Staff and OP only feature few non-Staff would even notice missing. Anybody think of a reason for other than those two?

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Transparent post deletion Feature	27	5319	2월 14, 2020
Notification when a moderator or admin deletes your message Feature	56	12325	8월 20, 2014
The persistence of posts hidden by flags are a bane to our community UX completed	35	4504	6월 1, 2023
Deleted Post remaining visible Support	2	511	4월 29, 2019
Let the user know why his contributions are deleted? Site feedback	15	2229	1월 31, 2022

Why are posts withdrawn instead of being deleted immediately?

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